Monday, January 28, 2008

Don't get kids involved

Dear Christian -

Be sure not to encourage your kids to participate in any kind of charity work. You know how kids are these days - apathetic, lazy, uncaring. They would hate working on something like that.

Lucifer


Kids are really amazing people.

They can sympathize with someone being poor or hungry. They can understand how some kids don't have toys or basic "stuff." Their hearts are young and (usually) unjaded. They simply want to help others.

But the important thing to impress upon them is that material goods are nothing without the Gospel being given, too.

My 9 year old collected 65 items for a food drive at church this week. She called relatives and asked for donations. It was truly heartwarming to see how she took this mission to heart.

But the best part is that she understands that while we are helping people be fed, we are also going to help feed their souls by presenting Jesus to them when they get their food.

Truly a great lesson to learn at such a young age.

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